Prospects of Learning in Second Life

By Isto Huvila, 3 January, 2013

 A two-day international conference in Ă…bo, Finland. The conference program includes keynote presentations by experts in virtual worlds, theme discussions led by invited speakers in small groups, and a closing roundtable discussion that views into the future of learning in virtual worlds.

Thursday 14.10.2010
11.00-12.00 Registration
12.00-12.10 Welcome, opening of the conference
12.10-13.10 Be Cunning and Full of Tricks: Innovative Learning in Second Life, John Lester
13.15-14.00 TBA, Robin Teigland
14.00-14.45 Coffee
14.45 -16.15 Discussions in small groups- Healthcare education in virtual worlds, discussion lead by John Lester and Isto Huvila
- Entrepreneurship in virtual worlds, discussion lead by Robin Teigland and Kim Holmberg
- Environmental learning and virtual environments, discussion lead by Terry Beaubois and Joseph Clark
16.30 – 17.15 TBA, Isto Huvila and Kim Holmberg
19.00 –> Dinner
Friday 15.10.2010
9.00-9.45 Learning about real environments in artificial ones: Environmental learning in SL, Joseph Clark
9.50-10.35 Sustainability and Virtual Environments, Terry Beaubois
10.35 – 11.10 Coffee
11.10 – 12.30 Future of learning in virtual worlds, Roundtable, John, Terry, Robin, Joseph, Isto, and Kim
12.30-13.00 Closing of conference
 

Read more at http://prospects.library2pointoh.fi

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Isto Huvila

(nĂ© Isto Vatanen)  
Professor in  
Information Studies  
Department of ALM  
Uppsala University

Docent (adjunct professor) in information management  
Information studies  
Ă…bo Akademi University

Isto Huvila is working on management and organisation of what we know and how we know in contexts ranging from social media to more traditional arenas of learning and working. My special areas of expertise are organisational information, social media, health, archives, libraries, museums and cultural heritage.

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